Cool New Tools

Here is a central repository of all the cool tools that we have learned about in class this year.

Week 1

Day 1: June 27th.

• HootCourse (for Classroom collaboration with Twitter)
• Google Docs (for "Writing of the Day")
  Weebly(for creating websites)http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
  Wikispaces (where this site is being hosted)

Day 2: June 28th.

• PicasaWeb (Shared PhotoAlbum in the Cloud)
• Wordle (Beautiful Word Clouds)
• Glogster (Poster making site)

Day 4: June 30th.

• Wikibooksjunior
• Dropbox

Day 5: July 1st

• Cool Tools for Schools(from Sara: A list of cool educators to check out.)
• Creative Commons (licensing for images and whatnot)
• Copyright Confusion (a website/wiki offering clear explanations in regards to copyright and use of materials in the classroom)

Week 2

Day 6: July 4th:

• VoiceThread(from Meagan: allows you to upload video or pictures then add audio, comments, drawings during or after the presentation...all students can make comments (written or oral) on a presentation)
  • http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/
    
    
• TED (Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.)
• Google Reader [link above your Gmail account.] (For following RSS news feeds in a single place)
  

  Extranormal

Day 7: July 5th

TPACK Stuff


Day 8: July 6th

Day 9: July 7th

• QR Code Creators
• Skidazzle --QR Code Hacks
• Dipity (from Dana) Interactive Timeline that can be collaborated on.

July 11

• http://piazza.com

July 13
Prezi
Popplet

July 18
Google ngram
Quizlet
Flashcard Touch

July 20
Google Forms (Create New Form -- Also remember Templates)
For categorical data, use Pivot Tables to create Frequency Table and then generate graphs
Links to How To use Pivot Tables (in case you forget!)
Google Operating System Post
Google Docs Blog

Also SurveyMonkey.Com

EduTopia Summer Professional Development Blog Series with LOADS of great links to tools (many of which we have explored...some of which we have not!)
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/collecting-organizing-information-summer-professional-development
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/webtools-creating-student-work-summer-professional-development

Hi guys, the attached link is from a teacher here who attended a workshop at JIS this summer. Some of these tools we used, others not.
http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=147718